The teachers

The teachers will hold either a régendat diploma (diplôme de régendat) or a certificate for aptitude for teaching (agrégation) in lower secondary education, complemented by a Master of Science in Education or by a wealth of experience in the field of education; or will hold a university degree or a master’s, complemented by a certificate for aptitude for teaching (agrégation) in higher secondary or any other equivalent foreign degree.

We will select erudite teachers, generous education specialists and people who transmit our ideals. For purely economic reasons, they will be freelancers. Their class and supervision hours will be paid according to different scales. They will lead directed studies and give remedial instruction based on their specialities and availability.

In the first and second years, the course will be given in Dutch and in French, depending on the team of teachers who have undertaken to working at the Arboretum. The AIR and CAS will be trilingual, depending on the nature of the interventions and the activities.

During French, Dutch and English lessons, only the language of instruction will be used.

When recruiting teachers, efficiency, understanding and learning will be preferred over perfect knowledge. We will seek the enlightened wise person rather than the scholarly professor.

The teachers will be encouraged to practice linear and vertical interdisciplinary instruction (including in CAS and AIR), which will require them to collaborate closely.

The language courses will be given to groups based on level of knowledge rather than on age.

The school will organise meetings with all teachers with the objective of working on interdisciplinarity and organising class and guidance councils.

Every department will meet at its convenience to create programmes and courses, based on the eindtermen of the Vlaamse Gemeenschap and on the International Baccalaureate, as well as other programmes that are considered relevant.

During the first week of July following each school year, the teachers will be evaluated by the head of the department of their discipline and by the management. The parents, teachers and/or students may complete anonymous satisfaction surveys which will permit the evaluation to be refined.

The home-schooling inspection (Communauté française or Vlaamse Gemeenschap, depending on the student’s domicile) may come to evaluate the material taught but not the way in which it is taught.

If a child leaves at the end of the second or the fourth year to attend school in the Communauté française or the Vlaamse Gemeenschap, our teachers will assist him or her prepare for the jurys.